Mia Farrow
Mia Farrow (* 9. February 1945 as Maria de Lourdes Villiers Farrow in Los Angeles , California ) is an American actress . She became famous for her role in Rosemary's Baby and films by and with Woody Allen . She has received awards such as the Golden Globe and the David di Donatello Award as well as three nominations for the BAFTA Film Award for her acting achievements .
Farrow is involved in numerous humanitarian projects in Africa and is a special envoy for UNICEF .
life and career
Early years
Farrow is the daughter of Australian writer, actor and director John Farrow and Irish actress Maureen O'Sullivan . She grew up with her six siblings mostly in Beverly Hills and came into contact with the film business at an early age.
Farrow contracted polio at the age of nine . It took months for her to fully recover, and in her memoir the actress calls this time "the end of my childhood".
In 1958 Farrow moved with her family for a few months to England for a film project of their father, where she attended a boarding school in Surrey with her younger sister Prudence . In the same year, Farrow's oldest brother Michael was killed in a plane crash. In the fall of 1959, the family moved back to Beverly Hills, where Farrow graduated from high school in 1962.
Film career
Farrow made her film debut at the age of twelve in a small role in the film Ruler of the Seas (1959), directed by her father. In January 1963, Farrow moved to New York City to take acting classes and soon after received the role of Cecily in the off-Broadway production of Oscar Wilde's play The Importance of Being Earnest .
In September 1963 she made the pilot for the television series Peyton Place and then the film Shots in Batasi (1964) with Richard Attenborough in the leading role. After that, Farrow turned back to filming Peyton Place . The series was followed by an audience of millions in the USA and Farrow became a national TV star. In 1965 she was awarded the Golden Globe Award for best young actress . Seven other nominations for this award followed. In 1966 Farrow left the TV series.
Farrow shot the film The Death Dance of a Killer (1968) in London's Pinewood Studios and was offered the lead role in Roman Polański's Rosemary's Baby (1968) by Paramount Pictures a short time later . The film adaptation of the bestseller by Ira Levin became a worldwide cult film and gave Farrow his final breakthrough as an actress. In the same year she received the David di Donatello Award and the Laurel Award for the role of Rosemarie Woodhouse . She was also nominated for the Golden Globe Award and the BAFTA Film Award for best leading actress.
This was followed by the films The Woman from Nowhere (1968) with Elizabeth Taylor and Robert Mitchum and John and Mary (1969) at the side of Dustin Hoffman . In the 1970s, Farrow lived and worked mostly in England. Between filming such films as The Great Gatsby (1974) opposite Robert Redford and A Wedding (1978) directed by Robert Altman , she mainly played theater with the Royal Shakespeare Company . In 1977 Farrow traveled to Egypt to film the Agatha Christie film version Death on the Nile and in the summer of 1978 to Bora Bora to direct Hurricane (1979). She then returned to New York City and starred in the play Romantic Comedy .
In the original English version of the cartoon The Last Unicorn (1982) Farrow lent the unicorn or Lady Amalthea her voice.
In 1982, Farrow first made the movie A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy under the direction of her then significant other, Woody Allen . The couple made a total of twelve films together from 1983 to 1992, including The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985), Hannah and Her Sisters (1986), New York Stories (1989), Alice (1990) and Husbands and Wives (1992).
In 1995, Farrow starred alongside Sarah Jessica Parker and Antonio Banderas in the movie Miami Rhapsody , but after the private and professional separation from Allen otherwise mostly worked in television productions. In 2006 Farrow returned to the big screen with The Omen and Luc Besson's Arthur and the Minimoys and its sequels in 2009 and 2010.
Humanitarian engagement
In 2000, Mia Farrow was appointed Special Ambassador for UNICEF . In this role, she is particularly committed to the eradication of polio . In 2001 the actress traveled to Nigeria and in 2010 to Chad to support large-scale vaccination campaigns against the disease.
Further trips to the crisis region of Darfur to draw attention to the Sudanese refugee situation and the suffering of the people there followed from 2004. In June 2006 she was accompanied by her son Ronan. Then both traveled to Berlin and visited - as part of a charity event and UNICEF aid to Sudan - the United Buddy Bears exhibition . As part of the Save Darfur campaign , Farrow went on a twelve-day hunger strike on April 27, 2009, which she documented on her website miafarrow.org.
Private life
Farrow has been married twice and is the mother of four birth children and ten adopted children. She had adopted another child, Sanjay from Vietnam, but passed him on to another family four days after his arrival in 1992.
Her first marriage to Frank Sinatra lasted from 1966 to 1968 and remained childless.
In September 1970 she married the composer and conductor André Previn . The couple has three biological sons and adopted two girls from Vietnam and, in 1978, the then eight-year-old Soon-Yi from South Korea . Farrow and Previn divorced in 1979.
In 1980, Farrow became Woody Allen's partner. Together they adopted two children and had a biological son, Ronan Farrow, in 1987 . The separation from Allen in 1992 caused a lot of sensation and moral controversy in the media due to Woody Allen's new relationship with Farrow's adopted daughter Soon-Yi and the ensuing custody battle for the three children they shared. On June 7, 1993, Farrow was awarded sole custody by a New York court.
Farrow adopted five more children in the 1990s.
Filmography
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Theatrography
- 1964: The Importance of Being Earnest (Madison Avenue Playhouse, New York City)
- 1973: Mary Rose (Shaw Theater, London)
- 1974: The House of Bernarda Alba (Greenwich Theater, London)
- 1974: Three Sisters ( Three Sisters , Greenwich Theater, London)
- 1975: The Marrying of Ann Leete (Aldwych Theater, London)
- 1976: William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream ( A Midsummer Night's Dream , Haymarket Theater, Leicester)
- 1976: Ivanov ( Ivanov , Aldwych Theater, London)
- 1979–1980: Romantic Comedy (Ethel Barrymore Theater, New York City)
- 1996: Getting Away With Murder (Broadhurst Theater, New York City)
- 2003: Fran's Bed (Long Wharf Theater, New Haven )
- 2005: Fran's Bed ( Playwrights Horizons , New York City)
Awards and nominations
- 1965: Award as the best young actress
- 1966: Best Television Actress nomination for Peyton Place
- 1969: Nomination for Best Actress in a Drama for Rosemary's Baby
- 1970: Nomination for Best Actress in a Comedy for John and Mary
- 1985: Nomination for Best Actress - Comedy / Musical for Broadway Danny Rose
- 1986: Nomination for Best Actress - Comedy / Musical for The Purple Rose of Cairo
- 1991: Nomination for Best Actress - Comedy / Musical for Alice
- 2000: Nomination for Best Actress in a Miniseries or TV Movie for Forget Me Never
- 1970: Best Actress nomination for John and Mary , Rosemary's Baby and The Woman from Nowhere
- 1986: Nomination for Best Actress for The Purple Rose of Cairo
- 1987: Hannah and her sisters were nominated for best leading actress
- 1969: Best International Actress Award for Rosemary's Baby
- 1990: nomination for best international actress for crime and other trivialities
Festival Internacional de Cine de Donostia-San Sebastián
- 1972: Best Actress Award for A Lovable Shadow
- 1968: Award for best young actress and 2nd place for best actress in a drama for Rosemary's Baby
- 1983: Nomination for Worst Actress for A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy
National Board of Review Award
- 1990: Best Actress Award for Alice
- 1999: Nomination for best leading actress in a television film for Silent Heroes
Trivia
In 1968, shortly after her divorce from Sinatra, Farrow traveled with her sister Prudence to an ashram in Rishikesh , India to attend a meditation course lasting several weeks. At the same time, the Beatles also lived in the ashram and John Lennon wrote the song Dear Prudence for Mia's sister , which was released on the album The Beatles in 1968 . The song Beware of Young Girls (1970) by the American singer, songwriter and poet Dory Previn , who wrote the song about his new wife after her divorce from André Previn in 1970, is about Mia herself .
In August 2010, Mia Farrow testified before the Special Court for Sierra Leone in The Hague against former Liberian president and alleged war criminal Charles Taylor .
literature
- Mia Farrow: What passes has duration. Memories. Bastei Lübbe, Cologne 1997, ISBN 978-3-7857-0830-9 .
- Edwar Z. Epstein, Joe Morella: Mia Farrow. Heyne, Munich 1995, ISBN 978-3-453-08124-6 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Mia Farrow in the catalog of the German National Library
- Mia Farrow in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Mia Farrow in the Internet Broadway Database (English)
- Mia Farrow in the German dubbing file
- Official homepage of Mia Farrow
- UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Mia Farrow , official homepage at unicef.org
- Mia Farrow in the Prisma TV Guide with current broadcast dates
Individual evidence
- ^ Mia Farrow on UNICEF's effort to eradicate polio . CNN, accessed July 1, 2011
- ↑ Mia Farrow in the Munzinger archive , accessed on July 1, 2011 ( beginning of article freely accessible)
- ↑ Mia Farrow: What passes by has duration - memories Gustav Lübbe Verlag 1997, p. 15
- ↑ Mia Farrow: What passes - memories have duration. Gustav Lübbe Verlag 1997, pp. 54/57
- ↑ Mia Farrow and the Forgotten Celebrity . Welt Online, accessed July 1, 2011
- ↑ The 22nd Annual Golden Globe Awards (1965) ( Memento of the original from November 24, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . The Hollywood Foreign Press Association, accessed July 1, 2011
- ^ Awards for Mia Farrow . IMDb.com, accessed July 1, 2011
- ^ Mia Farrow Goodwill Ambassador . UNICEF, accessed July 1, 2011
- ↑ Mia Farrow tries to fight polio ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . UNICEF, accessed July 1, 2011
- ↑ Mia Farrow Visits Nigeria, Fights to Eradicate Polio . UNICEF, accessed July 1, 2011
- ↑ Goodwill Ambassador Mia Farrow highlights polio immunization drive in Chad . UNICEF, accessed July 1, 2011
- ↑ Mia Farrow describes situation in Darfur camps for MSNBC . UNICEF, accessed July 1, 2011
- ↑ Mia Farrow and the United Buddy Bears
- ^ Mia Farrow in Berlin 2006
- ↑ Fasting and Furios - Mia Farrow on hunger strike by Tobias Kniebe . Süddeutsche Zeitung, accessed on July 2, 2011
- ↑ Mia Farrow Biography ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . mia-farrow.com, accessed July 1, 2011
- ↑ I have a dream . The time, accessed July 1, 2011
- ↑ Maureen Orth: Mia's Story . In: Vanity Fair . November 1992.
- ↑ Dinitia Smith: Picking Up The Legos And The Pieces . In: New York Times , May 8, 1994.
- ↑ Mia Farrow: What passes away - memories Gustav Lübbe Verlag 1997, p. 186
- ↑ Mia Farrow: What passes by has duration - memories Gustav Lübbe Verlag 1997, p. 192/193
- ^ Mia Farrow: What passes by has duration - memories Gustav Lübbe Verlag 1997, p. 197/198
- ↑ Mia Farrow: What passes by has duration - memories Gustav Lübbe Verlag 1997, p. 379
- ↑ Mia Farrow: What passes away - memories Gustav Lübbe Verlag 1997, pp. 203-207
- ↑ Mia Farrow: What passes by has duration - memories Gustav Lübbe Verlag 1997, p. 210
- ↑ Mia Farrow: What passes by has duration - memories Gustav Lübbe Verlag 1997, p. 210
- ↑ Mia Farrow: What passes by has duration - memories Gustav Lübbe Verlag 1997, p. 251
- ↑ The child custody trial of Mia Farrows and Woody Allens is in its third week . Der Spiegel 14/1993, accessed on July 1, 2011
- ↑ What is a father? Emma , accessed August 3, 2011
- ↑ Woody Allen and Mia Farrow: Scenes From A Breakup by Richard Corliss . Time Magazine August 1992, accessed July 1, 2011
- ↑ Vitriol Is Order of Day in Allen-Farrow Case The New York Times, Dec. 16, 1992, accessed August 3, 2011
- ↑ Allen Loses to Farrow in Bitter Custody Battle by Peter Marks . The New York Times, June 8, 1993, accessed July 1, 2011
- ↑ Mia Farrow in India ( Memento of the original from August 12, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . "The Beatles in India" by Paul Saltzman, accessed July 2, 2011
- ^ Dory Previn Full Biography MTV.com, accessed August 3, 2011
- ↑ Mia Farrow exposes top model Naomi . Süddeutsche Zeitung from August 9, 2010
Remarks
- ↑ Several of their children later changed their names or have alternative names.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Farrow, Mia |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Farrow, Maria de Lourdes Villiers |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | US-american actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 9, 1945 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Los Angeles , California , USA |